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RevTrans: Multiple alignment of coding DNA from aligned amino acid sequences.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2003
Wernersson Rasmus, Pedersen Anders Gorm
Abstract excerpt
The simple fact that proteins are built from 20 amino acids while DNA only contains four different bases, means that the 'signal-to-noise ratio' in protein sequence alignments is much better than in alignments of DNA. Besides this information-theoretical advantage, protein alignments also benefit from the information that is implicit in empirical substitution matrices such as BLOSUM-62. Taken together with the...
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